Figure 4 - Text Compactor
STEP 3 (IF NEEDED): COPY AND PASTE THE TEXT FROM REWORDIFY, MAGICSCHOOL AI, OR CHATGPT INTO TEXTCOMPACTOR. DRAG THE SLIDER TO THE PERCENTAGE FOR THE PASSAGE SUMMARY. The free online summarization tool, Textcompactor allows for copying and pasting text and choosing what percentage of the text should be summarized. It can summarize text from 0-100%. ( See Figure 4) When using the Textcompactor for ChatGPT’s summary of Chapter 1 at 25%, here was the response: In Chapter 1 of "Where the Red Fern Grows," the narrator, an adult reflecting on his child- hood, encounters a dogfight while walking home from work in the Snake River Valley, Idaho. Afterward, he takes care of the injured dog, and this encounter evokes memories of his childhood and his own redbone coonhounds. The chapter sets the stage for the story by introducing the theme of a deep connection between humans and dogs. Read the summarized text to determine if the summa- ry is correct.
Here is an example of taking ChatGPT’s first-grade level text from Chapter 1 and summarizing it down to 25%: Once upon a time, there was a man who found a hurt dog. The man was kind and wanted to make the dog feel better, so he took the dog home and took care of it. The man remembered when he was a little boy. How easy was that? With a few copies and pastes, the edu- cator now has different levels of support for grade-level content text for the classroom. All the educators need to know is how to copy and paste and the reading levels of their students. STEP 4 (IF NEEDED): PROVIDE THE TEXT WITH TEXT-TO-SPEECH SUPPORT. Now the text complexity and length have been changed; where should the text be put for students to read? There are nu- merous places where one could copy and paste the final text. Educators could paste it into a document or presentation slides, but what if the student needs to be able to read it with their ears? There are numerous options for text readers; however, we
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